Senior Associate, Communications & Advocacy

Global Health Strategies•New York City, NY

About The Position

Senior Associates are project managers, writers, and editors who drive important client deliverables, lead key client interactions, and help develop junior team members. They work across communications, advocacy, and project management, typically supporting two or more client accounts. The role calls for entrepreneurial thinking and strong communications skills, and may involve work beyond a traditional 9-to-5 schedule in a fast-moving global field. In communications, the Senior Associate develops strategic materials and persuasive presentations; creates and edits messages, fact sheets, social media posts, and digital content; develops story angles and press materials; prepares influential leaders for interviews and events; and tracks relevant media coverage, announcements, evidence, and conversations. In advocacy, the Senior Associate identifies opportunities and champions to advance client goals, coordinates partners and aligns messages, manages key components of high-level events, builds coalitions, and monitors global health policy and funding trends. In client and project management, the Senior Associate tracks project work, leads portions of client calls and meetings, provides strategic counsel, coaches staff, improves work efficiency including through AI, communicates progress and challenges to managers, and attends meetings and events on clients’ behalf with senior management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
3–6 years of related work experience.
Exceptional writing ability.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Nice To Haves

Communications agency, communications, or public relations experience.
Public health, global development, or political campaign experience.
French or Spanish language skills.
International work experience.
Master’s degree in a related field.
Experience with Adobe Creative Suite tools such as Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop, or with Canva.

Responsibilities

Produce strategic communications materials, including communications strategies and pitch decks.
Create and polish messages, fact sheets, social media posts, and digital materials that make complex concepts accessible.
Identify compelling story angles and develop pitches and press materials for reporters.
Edit opinion pieces and prepare influential leaders for interviews and events by drafting speeches and talking points.
Track media coverage, announcements, evidence, and conversations relevant to priority global health challenges.
Identify strategic opportunities and champions to influence stakeholders and advance client goals.
Coordinate partners, manage relationships, and align messages.
Manage key deliverables for high-level events, including identifying invitees and speakers and developing agendas or presentations.
Build coalitions through outreach, organization, and relationship management.
Track trends in global health policy and funding.
Track project details in a fast-paced environment and lead components of client calls and meetings.
Apply knowledge of global health and development context to provide strategic counsel to clients.
Coach staff members on writing, client-facing interactions, and time management.
Improve efficiency, including through the use of AI.
Keep managers informed about progress and challenges and propose solutions proactively.
Attend client events and meetings with senior management.